Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso

Marriott, Alice · 1950

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. Fourth Printing . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nice-looking, structurally sound, stated Fourth Printing of this fine biography of a Native American potter, Maria Martinez (or Marie Martinez). Sturdy, attractive, tigh...

Out of Place: A Memoir

Said, Edward W. · 1999

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An imposing, brilliant, rich autobiography from the noted Palestinian literary critic, ranging from his birth in Jerusalem in 1935 to the schools he attended in Cairo, Egypt to the holidays he ...

Himalaya: A Human History

Douglas, Ed · 2020

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. The author Ed Douglas (born 1966-) has ...

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell--Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

Wallach, Janet · 1996

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Nan A. Talese, for Doubleday, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's address label at first free endpaper. Bright and shiny dust ...

The Unknown Callas: The Greek Years

Petsalis-Diomidis, Nicholas · 2001

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Portland, Oregon, Amadeus Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Foreword by the Earl of Harewood, and with plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound in blue cloth, lightly worn along edg...

Familiar Heat

Hood, Mary · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This is the author's first novel (following two collections of short stories one of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction). SIGNED by the novelist author at title page and wit...

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949

Lessing, Doris · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, HarperCollins, 1994. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Nobel laureate's first volume of autobiography, beginning in Southern Rhodesia and thence to London in 1949, first manuscript in tow! Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little d...

Beach Music

Conroy, Pat · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, A Nan Talese Book, for Doubleday, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the beloved South Carolina author Pat Conroy, at title page, to augment a fine condition copy bound in hardcover, blue cloth over boards. Light crimping to a range of...

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

Niven, Jennifer · 2000

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Hyperion, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Rough-cut fore-edges, and a nice, long range of ...

The Pillars of Hercules: A Grant Tour of the Mediterranean

Theroux, Paul · 1995

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound handsomely in light tan cloth over boards, design stamped in gilt to front cover, white ...

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Milford, Nancy · 2001

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Random House, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's address label at first free endpaper. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustra...

Jericho: The South Beheld

Dickey, James and Hubert Shuptrine · 1974

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Birmingham, Alabama, Oxmoor House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the illustrated homage that brought attention to the Tennessee artist, Hubert Shuptrine (1936-2006). The resulting collaboration ...

Picasso Women: Cannes and Mougins--1954-1963

Parmelin, Helene · 1963

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Paris, France / New York, Editions Cercle D'Art / Harry N. Abrams, 1963. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. With Preface by Douglas Cooper and text by Helene Parmelin, this undated joint publication between Editions Cercle D'Art and Harry N. Abrams is au...

The First of Everso

Boleman-Herring, Elizabeth · 2005

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author, the panhellene and poet Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, at title page. Brightly colorful pictorial covers, illustrated fancifully by Sandra Tice-Wright ...

The First of Everso

Boleman-Herring, Elizabeth · 2005

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author, the panhellene and poet Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, at title page but also with a warm and loving inscription by her at first free endpaper. Brightl...

The First of Everso

Boleman-Herring, Elizabeth · 2005

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author, the panhellene and poet Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, at title page but also with a warm and loving inscription by her at first free endpaper. Brightl...

The First of Everso

Boleman-Herring, Elizabeth · 2005

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author, the panhellene and poet Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, at title page but also with a warm and loving inscription by her at first free endpaper. Brightl...

Kerkyra: From Nausicaa to Europe

Municipality of Kerkyra · 1994

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.31 | ¥7,026)

Athens, Greece, Adam Editions, 1994. First Edition. . . Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright red cloth over boards, sha...

Botero: Philosophy of the Creative Act

Marcel Paquet · 1992

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Mallard Press, 1992. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover exemplar of a fine artist monograph devoted to the Latin American artist Botero. Little discernible wear to the bright red cloth covers, brigh...

A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005

Delano, Sharon, in conversation with Annie Leibovitz · 2006

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

New York, Random House, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Near gift-quality condition copy, a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the black cloth over boards covers, blind-stamped title to spine, bright interio...